Hey Jonny,
First up an assurance :
"All those who the Father gives me will come to me. Him who comes to me I keep" :: John 6:37
"My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them" :: John 10:29
So rest assured that you have been called to Christ, and the evidence of this is, that although you were drifting away or being troubled in faith, you want to and are crawling back to the Cross.
Bible is the Sword of Spirit, so as to fight with Satan (and worldly deceptions). Your (like everyone's) enemy is Satan, he is very powerful, and all the time planning to deceive souls, through the worldly deception. How are you going to fight with such a powerful Satan ? We are being tempted everyday, we need the Word of God to save us in all those moments.
I would say that, yea reading can be boring at times, and Bible does have strong words, and needs lots of meditation on it to get to know the glory encapsulated in it, and that is why probably "the word of God" is termed as a "treasure", because the joy you get once you find it is immense.
You can listen to lots of audios from "Charles Spurgeon" and "A W Tozer" to help you start. There expositions are so easy to understand, and yet equally effective, I am sure that will arise anyone's interest in reading Bible again.
That is many of the other ways. This is what I do.. I memories Psalms, so that when I feel depressed or lost in faith, I preach myself through Psalms, or keeping "Scriptures" in sticky notes on my desktop, and keep checking them even in office.
Psalm 43 is one such.
I will post, if I think of more.
"Be strong and Courageous, and pick up the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, and remember that Lord Your Saviour is with You."